[Osx-nutters] President Bush Vows A ttacks “Across the World”

[guy hammond]

I'm simply saying that that's what they mean when they say "terrorist". A lot 
of people are really smug about being clever enough to point out that 
terrorism is a tactic and as such cannot be "defeated". Well, they're not so 
clever as they think, because defeating "terrorism" per se was never the 
intent! It's not exactly rocket science to observe that terrorist supporters 
such as NORAID right there in NYC and Boston have been completely ignored.

I believe that Rumsfeld et al don't see a structural difference between 
different ideologies. Communism was an ideology, and Communism was "defeated" 
and is now largely irrelevant in world affairs, therefore it follows, they 
reckon, that all ideologies can be defeated simply by making their underlying 
geopolitical infrastructure untenable. But while you can say "filthy Commie" 
etc etc, you can't get away with applying the same to a religion. So, they 
don't. Actions speak louder than words anyway.

G
 

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Quoting Patrick Coskren <pcoskren at mac.com>:


> Yes, that pesky Constitution.  So are you saying you're with Charles  
> in supporting this, or the rest of us in saying it's batshit insane?   
> Efforts to "defeat" a religion don't exactly have a noble history.